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UNITED STATES PATENT @rrucn.

SAMUEL E. PEEBLES, OF CULLMAN, ALABAMA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO A. M.PRESTON, OF SAME PLACE.

lNSECT-EXTERMINATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 597,509, dated January18, 1898.

Application filed January 13, 1897. Serial No. 619,067. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL E. PEEBLES, residing at Oullman, in thecounty of Cullman and State of Alabama, have invented a new and ImprovedInsect-Exterminator, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is in the nature of an insect or vermin destroyer having asteam-generating means and a steam-discharge spout; and it has for itsobject to provide a device of this character of a very simple andinexpensive construction which can be easily manipulated and which willeffectively serve for its intended purposes.

My invention also seeks to provide a simple arrangement of the boilerand the lampholding casing, whereby the outer or lamp casing will bekept cool to thereby admit of a free handling of the device withoutdanger of burning the hands. 7

With other objects in View, which will hereinafter be referred to, theinvention consists in a device for the purposes stated embodying thepeculiar combination and novel arrangement of parts, such as will befirst described in detail and then be specifically pointed out in theappended claim, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, inwhich- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the preferred form of myimprovement. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same. Fig. 3 is ahorizontal section taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a sideelevation, partlyin section, of a modified form of my improvement; andFig. 5 is a horizontal. section of the same, taken on the line 5 5 ofFig. 4.

In the accompanying drawings, in which like numerals indicate like partsin all the figures, 1 indicates an exterior jacket or casing, which hasits lower end 2 flared to fit over a lamp or heater 3, which hasprojecting studs 4 to engage the bayonet slots 5 in the flared end ofthe jacket, as clearly shown in Fig. 1, such connections providing asimple means for holding the lamp and casing together during theoperation of bug or vermin extermination.

In the preferred construction,such as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, the jacketor casing has an interior or supplemental jacket 6, the lower end ofwhich is closed, while the upper end terminates at the top member 7 ofthe jacket. Held pendent from the top 7 and centrally within thesupplemental jacket 6 is a water holder or boiler 8, having its lowerend made conical, as at S, and having a feed-inlet 8 in the top, whichmay be provided with a stopper or with a pendent pipe-section extendeddown below the normal water-line, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig.2. This boiler 8 near its upper end also communicates through the pipe 9with a steam-collecting chamber 10, secured on the outside of thewater-jacket at a point diametrically opposite the handle member 11.

The top '7 of the jacket has a series of airopenings 12 at a point overthe annular firespace 13, surrounding the boiler, and to keep the-space14 cool it is also provided with air-openings 14: at the top,communicating with such air-space.

The steam-chamber 10 has a long pointed nozzle 15, so that the devicecan be readily poked into the corners of a bedstead or other pointswhere it is usually ditficult to enter with other destroying devices.The nozzle is offset from the pipe 9, so that the water and steam cannotpour directly from the reservoir through the nozzle.

So far as described it will be readily apparent that by slipping thecasing over the lamp 3 and giving the same a partial turn the two willbe securely held locked together.

Owing to the lower end of the boiler being made conical, the flame ofthe lamp will be evenly divided and the heat deflected to pass up intothe heatspace around the boiler in a uniform manner.

By providing the supplemental or air jacket surrounding the fire-spacethe outer wall of the casing is kept cool, thereby admitting of a freemanipulation of the device without danger of burning the hands.

To produce a proper combustion of the fuel in the lamp, the bottom ofthe casing is provided with a series of air-openings 17, as shown.

In Figs. 4 and 5 I have shown a modified form of my improvement. In thisconstruc tion the air-space is dispensed with, as also the supplementalsteam-space at the side, and the nozzle connected directly to the upperend of the boiler;

By providing the jacket 1 with the supplemental, exterior steam-space 10it is manifest that the danger of discharging mixed steam and water whenthe holder is quite full is reduced to a minimum, as such water as mayboil through the pipe 9 will collect in the bottom of the saidsteam-space 10.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings, it isthought the advantages of my invention willbe readily understood. It Will be observed that the same can be used toeject steam into nooks and crevices to destroy any vermin which may resttherein.

While my improvementis more especially adapted for use as anexterminator, it is manifest that the same may be used as anair-moistener for sick-r0oms.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and'desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

A device of the class described, comprising a casing having a top withopenings 12 and 14, a reservoir depending from the top of the easing, ajacket interposed between the casing and the reservoir and forming anouter c001- ing-space and an inner flue, a steam-collecting chambermounted on the exterior of the casing, a nozzle extending therefrom, ahorizontal pipe 9 communicating with the reservoir and the chamber andoffset from the nozzle, and a depending filling-tube extending to withina short distance of the bottom of the reservior, substantially asdescribed.

SAMUEL E. PEEBLES.

Witnesses:

R. S. PILLEY, F. M. COOK.

